News Source
EXCERPT:
The on-again, off-again discussion around the Chagos Islands would appear to be back on. Those islands happen to contain the strategic Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia. The United Kingdom, which controls the islands, balked at allowing American aircraft to use the base as a launching point for attacks on Iran, but Diego Garcia is well within range of Iran – and China, which the B-52 and B-2 bombers can reach from the Indian Ocean base.
